Hi Jeri,
Thank you for painting a wonderful picture of this book in your eloquent
words. I'll be looking out for this book when our supplier returns from
her overseas travels.
Cheers,
Shirley T. - Adelaide, South Australia where winter has come in with a
bang and record breaking rains
Introducing Bone Lace - A Beginner's Guide to Working Early Bobbin Lace
By Gilian Dye
Publisher Cleveden Press, 2017
44 pages, 79 images including samples, patterns, diagrams
ISBN 078-0-9553223-7-2
"The fair maids that weave their threads with bones"?
This book of helpful hints is like
Dear Book Collectors,
Obviously, Guilds try to have books available for borrowing, and having as
many as possible to choose from is very important to some members.
Especially to authors and to scholars.
It is of importance to know about obvious errors. I write just for
Arachne and for
Hello everyone
Book reviews in our lace publications are an important link between the
lacemaker and the lace book author. Accordingly, the person who reviews the
book would write positive, objective remarks on behalf of the author, for
the benefit of the reader. Most of us I think prefer to
Youghal Irish Needle Lace
for Connoisseurs and Lacemakers
By Elizabeth M. Kurella
Self-published
2014, 158 pages, Soft Cover, $30
ISBN 978-0-9642871-5-0
Elizabeth Kurella skillfully presents a new book that will be of use to
both lace connoisseurs and lacemakers.
She explains the
Hi,
Elena Dickson of Armenian knotted lace fame has lately released her
third book. This URL will take you to the review by our lace guild
Librarian, Lydia.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9n5KdrUcZ4SdlBUQk5lTHJmbzNQbUFwcW8yUWt3ZHZ1WHBV/edit?usp=sharing
Elena can be contacted on
Interwoven Globe - The Worldwide Textile Trade, 1500-1800
Edited by Amelia Peck
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
Yale University Press
ISBN 978-0-300-19698-6
2013, 350 pp. Hardback
You will recall that I announced the Interwoven Globe: The Worldwide
Textile Trade 1500-1800 Exhibition on
Thank you for that book review, Jeri. It sounds wonderful.
Oh dear! Our $ has just dipped badly against the £, so it will have to be
relegated to my wish list!!
In fact the whole exhibition sounds fantastic. Fancy being able to see a
collar, in the flesh so to speak, similar to those shown in
In Fine Style - The Art of Tudor and Stuart Fashion by Anna Reynolds,
curator of the exhibit in the Queen's Gallery at Buckingham Palace until
October 6, 2013. Book published in 2013 by the Royal Collection Trust, 300
pages, Hardback, ISBN 978-1-905686-44-5.
It would be nearly impossible
Dear Lace Friends,
Sometimes, it is very difficult to get a book you want. It may be one
that does not yet exist! I am forwarding a review just written for the next
Quarterly Needle News publication that Ruth Kern Books in the U.S. sends
to subscribers. This is a self-published book that is
Hello All! Mary Corbet's www.needlenthread.com has another blurb about Lefkara
lace today. This time she reviews the book by Androula Hadjiyiasemi, including
some pics of the book itself. Someone replied that new copies of the book are
available she posted the link. Perhaps IOLI or Lace
Finally posted my review of the book on coloured Puncetto.
http://apinnick.wordpress.com/2011/05/29/book-review-manuale-del-puncetto-colorato/
Best wishes,
Avital
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Dear spiders,
I posted my review of the basic Puncetto book, A Scuola di Puncetto Valsesiano:
http://apinnick.wordpress.com/2011/03/24/book-review-a-scuola-di-puncetto-valsesiano/
Avital
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Whilst it may be possible with embroidery, provided one can tell where
the starts and finishes were, to tell if the worker were left or right
handed in some cases, (dependent on which way round the worker had
worked of course I used to finish off sewing for my Mum... she
was a
To: Margery Allcock
Cc: jeria...@aol.com; lace@arachne.com
Subject: Re: [lace] Book Review for Left-handed Stitchers
Whilst it may be possible with embroidery, provided one can
tell where
the starts and finishes were, to tell if the worker were left
or right
handed in some cases
Yvette Stanton's The Left-Handed Embroiderer's Companion - A Step-by-Step
Stitch Dictionary, published by Vetty Creations in 2010,
978-0-9757677-3-3, PB.
My copy came from Ruth Kern Books in the U.S., priced $29.(U.S. Amazon
for $23.)
This new book from Australia may be helpful to
Of jeria...@aol.com
Sent: Monday 09 August 2010 18:46
To: lace@arachne.com
Subject: [lace] Book Review for Left-handed Stitchers
Yvette Stanton's The Left-Handed Embroiderer's Companion - A
Step-by-Step
Stitch Dictionary, published by Vetty Creations in 2010,
978-0-9757677-3-3, PB
Dear Lace Fan Lovers,
Before Christmas, here is a book that you may want to put on your gift list:
A Touch of Dutch - Fans from the Royal House of Orange-Nassau
By Helene Alexander (The Fan Museum, London)
and Fransje Hovinga-van Eijsden
A fan exhibit catalogue
Pub. Feb. 2008 by The Fan
Has anyone bought the book 52 designs from Cecil Higgins Museum?
If so, can you please give a book review?
I have the 3 previous books from there that came out a few years ago -
patterns of Lester lace, and pictures in a large folio, etc.
What is this latest book like? Is it all Lester Lace,
Fillings from Hunnia Lace
Anna Ruhle - Gizella Fay, Aladarne
ISBN: 2-35032-022-7, 2006, 95 pages, Hardcover
Published by L'Inedite (France) www.editionslinedite.com
Please note that the cover lace Dance of the Brownies is privately owned,
and not represented by a pattern in the book!
The
: Thursday, September 15, 2005 4:27 PM
Subject: [lace] Book review
I found the following book in our local
consignment/thrift shop on Sunday afternoon. Paid a
mere $9.75 for this very large, hardcover book with
LOTS of beautiful color photos.
Lace History and Fashion by Anne Kraatz
It's
I found the following book in our local
consignment/thrift shop on Sunday afternoon. Paid a
mere $9.75 for this very large, hardcover book with
LOTS of beautiful color photos.
Lace History and Fashion by Anne Kraatz
It's a very nice book and talks by century about types
of lace and how they
. . . and not only is Cynthia Voysey a marvelous photographer, but she is a
fabulous lacemaker, and her needlelaces are a wonder to behold, they are so
beautiful. I have pictures of a couple of them from a workshop that I took with
her years (and years and years) ago. I should e-mail her,
Hi All, I saw a book in Holly Van Sciver's catalogue that she was out of in
Ithaca. It's called Lace and the Emerald Isle by Alan Brown who wrote
Take the Children. Does anybody have this book?
From the title it sounds like it covers the laces of Ireland but I'd love to
hear more.
Thanks for
Dear Lacemakers,
Romanian Point Lace by Angela Thompson and Kathleen Waller, Batsford, 2003,
ISBN 0-7134-8832-8, $27 (U.S.), $42 (Canada), 18 pounds (U.K.), has arrived
in Maine USA! That means it is probably available everywhere. It is
distributed in the U.S./Canada by Sterling.
Angela is
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